Stephanie Smith, pictured, escaped a custodial sentence after she was convicted of stealing a £200 pair of gold earrings from Olga Caddick's home

Two brothers set up spy cameras in their parents' home to catch a care worker stealing from their elderly mother.

Falklands war veteran Jonathan Caddick drafted in an old army surveillance expert to set up the devices around his parents' home after he and his brother Mark became suspicious items were being stolen.

And when they played the videos back they saw Stephanie Smith stealing jewellery from their mother Olga's bedroom.

When police went to the caravan she was staying in in St Asaph, Smith claimed officers who found the earrings in her car must have planted them.

Today, Smith, 48, who used to work for Hollybank Home Care, was in court to be sentenced for stealing a £200 pair of golden earrings from Mrs Caddick.

She denied the theft but was convicted by magistrates earlier this week.

The footage recorded by the brothers on a camera in a cupboard shows Smith rooting through a box on Mrs Caddick's dressing table, and putting something in her pocket.

When the earrings where discovered, Smith - formerly of Ellesmere Port - changed her story from claiming they'd been planted to saying Mrs Caddick had asked her to fetch the earrings down because she wanted to give them to her granddaughter as a gift.